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A66882 The history of independency the fourth and last part : continued from the death of His late Majesty, King Charls the First of happy memory, till the deaths of the chief of that juncto / by T.M. Esquire, lover of his king and country. T. M., Esquire, lover of his king and country.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651. History of independency. 1660 (1660) Wing W331A; ESTC R18043 73,036 134

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a particular and peculiar care of but as it were in despight of Heaven they are not content with all their former wickednesses of banishing exiling and railing against their lawfull Soveraign but now they will enforce all to renounce him which in September they Resolved in these words J. A. B. Do hereby declare Oath of abjurati on that I renounce the pretended title of CHARLS STUART and the whole line of the late King James and of every other person as a single person pretending to the Government of these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging And that I will by the grace and assistance of Almighty God be true faithfull and constant to this Common-wealth against any King single person and house of Peers and every of them and hereunto I subscribe my name Thus may every one see that it was not to amend or reform any errours in the State but only their particular malice to the Royall line and covetousness after their Estate that made them run into such desperate designes wherein having so deeply engaged themselves that there was no going back they mean to make all sure to their interest and to that end take into debate in the beginning of September the matter of the Government and referred it to a Committee upon the votes in 1648. The blindness of the Juncto To prepare something in order to the settlement of the Government on or before the tenth of October See here the indiscretion of these men after a ten years unsettlement and bringing all into confusion in all which time they have minded nothing but their own private wealth and till this last minute of time have not so much as thought of resettling and that they now have is so weakly that it tends no further than to an offer thus running willingly into one crime they daily perpetrate new ones without any sense of evill or will of amending attributing the guilt of their faults to all that endeavour either to reform or punish them The business of Cheshire thus blown over and the great hopes that were grounded thereon blasted the Juncto fall to their old humour of raising money no less will serve their turn than 100000. l. a moneth besides Excise and Customes Taxes and excise confirmed new delinquents made and mi●itia arreas collected together with the hoped benefit that would arise from the sequestred Estates of new Delinquents and least any thing should escape them the 16th of September they vote That such persons as have been assessed to find horses and Armes by vertue of the Act of Parliament for setling the Militia and have not brought in their horses and Armes nor paid in lieu thereof the summ of money appointed by the said Act. That every such person and persons do under the penalty in the said Act mentioned pay after the rate of ten pounds for an horse and Armes for such number of horses and Armes respectively as they have been charged to find Resolved That such person and persons as have been assessed to find Armes for a foot Souldier and have not sent in the same or money in lieu thereof do under the penalties in the said Act mentioned pay respectively for every such foot Armes such summ of money as the Commissioners shall appoint not exceeding twenty five Shillings for every such foot Armes 'T is no matter you see by this whether any Horse or Armes be brought in at all so that the money be paid Oh! 'T is the money that adds Life and Legs to a decrepit and dying old cause The Grandees would never take so much pains unless an extraordinary profit also waited thereon which they resolve to compass though with the extreamest hazards whereof there began to be some kind of an appearance by the growing of heart-burnings and multiplying fears and jealousies between their late great Champion Lambert and themselves The Juncto grow suspitious o Lambert the sparks of which animosities growing into a flame quickly increased to that height that not daring to trust him any longer with the Army they send a seeming courteous Letter to invite him home which he taking no notice of any thing further than the pretended outside fair shew acceps of and on the 20th of September returnes accordingly to London but immediately before his arrivall there the Juncto He comes to London to shew the great charity wherewith they abounded took into consideration how to cozen the poor Knights of Windsor and to ingross into their hands all Hospitals and their reveneues by these two following votes Viz. Tuesday September 20th 1659. Resolved That it be referred to a Committee The Juncto intend to seize on all Hospitalls and convert their rents to look into the revenue for maintenance of the poor Knights of Windsor to examine what the same at present is and will be for the future after Leases expired and to see that the charitable uses to which the said revenue was granted be performed and the residue to be answered to the use of the Common-wealth by all means pray take a care of that and to examine the Leases that have been made and the fines that have been paid thereupon and how disposed and by what authority with power to give reliefe and allowance to the said poor Knights and other poor people not exceeding their former allowance Oh take heed of too much charity and also to take a Catalogue of all Hospitalls within this Common-wealth and the revenewes of them they are sure to mind that And that the Masters and Governours do return to this Committee the constitution of the respective hospitalls and how the profits thereof have been and are disposed of and by what authority before the first of December 1659. And to report the whole matter to the house Ordered That all Masters and Governours of hospitalls be and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any Leases of any Lands Tenements and hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitalls untill this house take further Order Notice of which is to be given to the respective concerned persons by the Councill of State See here how greedy is the zeal of these devouring Statists which yet is clothed in the g●●be of a seeming Sanctimonious care but this hypocrisie must not go long unpunished neither does it for now begins to appear the result of Lamberts designments abroad in a remonstrative address from the Army at the very first newes whereof the Parliament is so startled that fearing to be whipped with their own rod they ordered Col. Armies remonstrate the Juncto send for some Officers Ashfield Col. Cobbet and Lieutenant Col. Duckenfield three of the chief promoters of it to bring to them the original paper intended to be presented upon notice of which order given immediately a letter was delivered into the house signed by many persons of the Army superscribed to the said three summoned persons by whose